• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    5611 months ago

    IIRC the reason the queen is such a powerful piece is because the original piece was called something like “The Commander” or “The Champion”, and the idea of that being a separate person from the King didn’t make sense once the game reached Europe amid the chivalric code and specific rules about how lords and monarchs are to be handled on the battlefield.

    • @[email protected]
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      4611 months ago

      You’re probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen’s moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader’s imagination.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    The king is not weak. In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.

    Statistically the pawn to the rightmost of the white king also survives in some 70%, while the queen only has about 49% chance of survival to the end.

    The knights and the pawn in front of the queen are the first to go.

    • NaibofTabr
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      6611 months ago

      The king is not weak. In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.

      Yes, well that’s because he puts everyone else in harm’s way first. Typical behavior for a “noble”.

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      11 months ago

      In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.

      I see we haven’t been matched yet. I will quit in any of these cases (I call these legal cheats, because frankly it shouldn’t be allowed):

      • castling, obviously
      • en passant, obviously
      • promotion, obviously
      • horsey jumping in front of the pawns as first move (wtf)
      • pawns moving 2 squares (op)
      • bishop taking my rook (unfair, I didn’t mean that last move)
      • me having the black (imba)
      • @Olmai
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        911 months ago

        When en passant is forced but now you have to resign because you played a legal cheat

        • xigoi
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          511 months ago

          You can just declare stalemate. OP moves don’t count as legal moves.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      1311 months ago

      Legal age for marriage has been 18 since 1978. Unlike many states in USA.

      5 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington.

      2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.

      23 states have a minimum age of 16.

      10 states have a minimum age of 17.

  • @Why9
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    1811 months ago

    The real story is how a king as old and frail as him managed to get a queen as young, fit and loyal as her, willing to slay anything that appears within her sight…

  • @Cossty
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    1711 months ago

    That’s woke. #CancelChess.

  • @[email protected]
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    1511 months ago

    Everyone here knows that the only way to know who’s the best chess player is by having a best of 3 1v1 king only final destination with no item

  • Flax
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    1211 months ago

    Doesn’t the Queen sit on her own colour?